Tiny Evil gives Hiro a speech. He taught the world that even a lowly office drone could make a difference if he just believed! And had the power to stop time and teleport, but why focus on the details. Hiro buys it and comes out just in time for the stoner dude to see a pic in the comic book showing Hiro and Claire as children hiding in the greenhouse on the roof in NYC while their dads hash shit out. And Hiro's wearing the same outfit as he was in the pic! Only much much bigger. This must mean that Hiro has to take Claire back to this roof top to get his memory back! HUH? Well, why the f not? Does it matter that Hiro was wearing the same outfit when he was just normal Hiro who remembered everything when Papa P found him in the African desert? NO! LET'S JUST MAKE SOME SHIT UP! Hiro gets all excited and teleports out of there. I press pause to take a moment. A long moment. An hour. To get severely wasted. Am I using Heroes to justify addiction? Yes. Is it a damn good excuse? I think so.
HRG gets home and Claire is in bed all wrapped up in bitterness about him not being there when she needed him. I am so sorry I was killing the end of the world when you needed a lollipop, brat. He reminds her that he was assigned to protect her and she shouts that she died. That freaks him out because it means that Sylar came back to life too. Sure enough, when he gets down to the living room, Sy and Elle are there holding Pirate Mom hostage. Sylar throws HRG up against the wall with his fingers and holds him there. Wow, his acting just totally improved.
I'm buyin it!
HRG says that Papa and Mama P are lying about being Sylar's parents to play on his mommy issues and manipulate him and he can never just be a happy normal family man. His girlfriend helped create him, and he killed his girlfriend's father. This is like Days of Our Lives. Sylar is Marlena and Elle is John. They can only be happy for a couple of weeks at a time or the show just wouldn't work. Sylar starts to believe him, because deep down Sylar's an ignoramus and will believe anything he's told, but Elle screams about HRG being a liar so Sylar starts cutting his throat open.
Just then, Hiro shows up! He puts his hand on Sy's shoulder and says "bad man." He teleports him out of there and comes back to get Elle. Then he comes back to get Claire, leaving HRG and Pirate Mom dumfounded. Finally. A really good scene. That only took two hours. And back to the comic store.
What, were you expecting a full recovery so fast?
Matt and Daphne come in looking for Hiro but he's gone. And the comic books are done. But wait! Tiny evil heard a legend once. Of fucking course he did. According to the story, Isaac gave his final sketch book to a bike messenger. Uh huh. Ah well, one good scene was better than none.
In the jungle, the Haitian takes the slave chicks back home while Nathan and Peter have a chance to talk deep. Nathan says that he loves that Peter thinks with his heart and now he's going to too. Their dad might be a bastard, but he's trying to give people powers to save the world and that's a good thing. LOL. Because Papa is so committed to helping good people succeed. What a dick face. He leaves Peter in the middle of the jungle IN HAITI to go to Pinehurst and work with daddy. I think I've typed this four times already, but HUH? Do people at NBC actually watch these episodes or just sit at home counting Sprint money?
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Comments (3)
had to republish due to some pic malfunctioning. here is dr jerkass' glorious comment.
dr. jerkass:
My biggest problem with this show is that at the end of every episode, when you ask yourself 'what did we learn about the story?' the answer is usually not much.
In this one we learned that the eclipse can take away their powers, but then they come back, so it barely matters. We learned that Nathan wants to support the plan for a clone army (whoops, I mean specials army), buy we already knew that would happen because we can see the future. We learned that even though Sylar is evil, he's not so bad, no wait, he's evil, no wait...
Anyway, the point is that they just keep going over the same 2 or 3 plots they have actually figured out and beating us over the head with them like we're the semi-retarted Japanese 10 year old.
All that said, my favorite thing about this show is your recaps. And as much as I want the show to get good again, the worse it gets, the funnier the recap.
1 of 3 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on December 4, 2008 11:47 AM
Flipit you are hilarious. I've been sitting on my sofa in Kent, England, cackling away to myself at your take on this ep.
Great work!!!
:D
2 of 3 | Posted by quannoi | Posted on December 9, 2008 1:27 PM
thanks! i'm glad to know someone out there is still holding out hope for this damn show! xo
3 of 3 | Posted by flipit | Posted on December 9, 2008 6:24 PM